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Costs of Incarceration on Families

Who Pays?reveals that the costs of incarceration run deeper than budget line items and extend far beyond the sentences served. Whether behind bars or returning home, people who have experienced incarceration are a part of families whether chosen or blood related to...

Crime & Victimization in the U.S.

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) are the two largest and most comprehensive resources for information relating to crime and victimization in the United States. While the UCR...

Crime Trends

Criminal victimization trends provide useful insights by positioning annual data within a broader context. To estimate these trends, researchers rely on two national sources of crime data: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and...